Health game: solução para o treinamento de escolares em ressuscitação cardiopulmonar

Abstract

Introduction: The usage of digital resources as an educational tool for people is a reality in Brazil and around the world. The cardiopulmonary arrest is the most important clinical emergency. A person's chance of survival drops by 10% every minute CPR is not performed. The use of the application as an educational tool in the format of Serious Games about CPR for training of lower school students, points to the evidence-based practice and its importance in the dissemination of updates and agility in action in front of a CPR event. The analysis of this market demand in which parents are working most of the time and children being cared for by the elderly, in direct contact with them, points to the possibility of training in CPR for this child audience. Given that cases of cardiopulmonary arrest, associated with sudden death, possibly linked to lifestyles and dysfunctional habits of today, occur mainly in the home environment. The absence of assertive technological methods that address the issue to the lay public at school, arises the need to create more attractive methods such as games with purposes. It emphasizes recognition and rapid action that are essential for survival given the many challenges in early CPR care. Objective: to develop a digital product in Serious Games format. The emphasis is on the lower school students group for CPR health education. Method: methodological research applied to the technological production of a serious game prototype. A free application for smartphones was developed, through the Evolutionary Prototyping process, to contribute as a learning strategy for lay people of lower school, for the emergency care of a CPR in an extra-hospital environment. Results and discussion: bibliometric analysis of the literature resulted in 36 articles, which pointed out the studies with the most usual active methodologies in Brazil and in the world, bringing realistic simulation and the use of ICTs in parallel, to solidify teaching-learning, however, with low adhesion. Afterwards, a prototype of a mobile application was developed, called “Hands Save Lives”, format in story mode and in third person. In a playful and interactive way, it provides students with an approach to the BLS maneuvers, in addition to favoring reflection and quick decision-making. The content was validated from interviews with 19 experts about the applicability of the game, following the ethical precepts and inclusion criteria. In short, the game presented the averages of the experts' answers in the structures of usability, functionality, reliability and efficiency with the overall average at 4.33 out of a total of 5 points and the general CVI at 0.89, consolidating the agreement between the evaluators. Conclusion: supported by the prerogatives of the AHA and Jean Piaget's pedagogical theory, it translates the applicability of experience, through the game, training, expanding actions to improve the quality of care and early interventions, prioritizing the resource of time.